Then there's this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=pK8KKS-l-2c&feature=emb_logo
Not exaggerating this is the worst thing to happen ever
"We also considered community impact, local and national interest, competitiveness, and sport sponsorship at the Big Ten and NCAA Division I level."
Well apparently getting 3rd indoors in the Big Ten isn't competitive enough. Dang.
As an alum I'm embarrassed. The total budget of those 3 programs is minimal compared to what Fleck, Pitino, and Whalen are making. Mark Coyle himself should take a massive paycut. His salary alone could probably cover the shortfall...
PLASENCIA GETS THE BOOT
End of an era of getting trashed by Wisconsin.
Why did they not cut cross country? They won't get any good runners anyway without a track program.
Where are all of the supposed self-starting coaches and runners on this site? Why are you not starting to build clubs as college sports are falling apart? Can only do it when you suck at the tit of universities?
Dr. Marvin Monroe wrote:
Why did they not cut cross country? They won't get any good runners anyway without a track program.
obvi title 9 - track rosters are large and hard to balance on the women's side.
probably track travel costs are quite high too.
Wonder if this is the beginning of way more of this to come. The cure could be worse than the disease.....
"But as a general matter, college sports have a tremendous amount of excess in waste. They don't operate like normal commercialized entities do in our society. A normal commercialized entity is a company that has owners, and owners want to see profits so that they can have higher stock prices or they can get more dividends. An athletics department, even though it's a commercial entity, does not have stockholders. It has stakeholders: they care about wins. And so whenever an athletic director sees some more money coming in because they sold more tickets this year, or because they have a better television contract, the athletic director immediately deploys that revenue. So it's a vicious cycle. "
This hits really hard. I am a Minnesota track and field alum and it feels a bit like someone died. Of course I understand the financial burden COVID has placed on athletic departments, and I was fully expecting sweeping cuts of some fashion, but this was completely unexpected to me. While we have not won a Big-10 title in close to a decade, we have still had many competitive years in the recent years and regularly produce all-americans out of nearly every event group, not to mention and two 2016 olympians. I am especially disappointed because so many people like me helped contribute to building the new track facility. I don't think anyone could have imagined that there would not be a men's team to use it in a few short years.
What a bunch of BS. We finally get a new track facility and now this.
'Tis a bummer.
CNN wrote:
Wonder if this is the beginning of way more of this to come. The cure could be worse than the disease.....
If W&M and others were a tremor, this is the first true upheaval and the sure start of a chain of dominos falling. Minnesota Athletics spent at Wisconsin levels despite having a fraction of their success. That's going to leave you over the barrel and any real disruption will cut your knees out from under you. This was going to happen inside the next two decades, COVID complications simply hastened the demise. Look out Ole Miss, UCLA, Mizzou, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Arizona State, NC State, Iowa, Maryland, Oklahoma State, Rutgers, and any other program that has thrown money at the football facilities arms race without the payoff of FBS Playoff appearances or help from regular deep runs in the NCAA Tourney and haven't built bulletproof alumni networks around the men's T&F program like Arkansas or Oregon. Some of the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 programs might stall this inevitability a little longer because they aren't losing as much with a canceled football season as the Pac12 and Big10, but you better believe it's coming.
It won't end until more women realize that title 9 is hollowing out college sports.
it won't end until women stand up and argue for a better safe harbor for title 9 enforcement.
more of this, please.
https://twitter.com/karagoucher/status/1304171869646581765?s=20
Once again, this is what happens when we can't justify our existence.
Let this be a warning to all collegiate coaches: it's your job to create an active, outspoken, and generous alumni if you want to survive. They don't cut football not because of revenue but because of potential public outcry. Many universities lose money on football and yet they are untouchable. Why? Because people would lose it. Make yourselves more valuable!!
They cut the men's programs at my university while I was there and I make sure to let them know that is why I don't donate to the university. But that doesn't accomplish much of anything on the back end.
If anyone is as furious about the obviously male-targeted cuts here combined with the shortfalls in football revenue eliminating NON-football sports please write the Minnesota president and AD as soon as possible. How can such a large institution have absolutely no ability to survive after ONE semester of no sports?? Absolutely terrible financial management and the 100 male athletes and their coaches are going to have their lives upended because of the leadership's negligence.
Men's track and field is literally the only Division 1 program in the state of Minnesota and it's being eliminated due to football/basketball shortcomings.
Joan Gabel, president:
Mark Coyle, AD:
Rhonda McFarland, CFO:
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?